Bruce Springsteen General Discussion Thread

Just stay well clear of the pit rats up the front

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Health & safety, insurance and event licence rationale.if a Drunk Bruce falls over onto a kid in the pit and injured them who do you think will be sued!

I met a dyed in the wool Kerry woman last night in her 50's who'd been at the rail on Friday. She was in the pit last night but didn't get to the rail. Lovely woman but was really into the pit numbering thing. To my astonishment she said goodbye to me midway through the second last song so she could start queueing for Tuesday.

Any changes to the set from Friday to last night?

Five. My Love Will Not Let You Down and Death to My Hometown opened the show before No Surrender. Darkness on the Edge of Town appeared early and Candy's Room dropped out. Later, Pay Me My Money Down took Johnny 99's spot in the middle of the set. Finally, Land of Hope and Dreams replaced by Bobby Jean in the encores.

Biggest omission was Thunder Road which has been played at every stop on the tour (apart from opening night in Tampa) but was skipped last night with the main set ending after Badlands. That's a BIG song to leave out.

There is a theory that Thunder Road was to be done after Glory Days, but then he called out for Bobby Jean to replace it, wanting to maintain the emotional momentum that had built over the previous few songs. That may or may not be true, but you could see that Bobby Jean was definitely a call out/audible/change to whatever was on the setlist, and Thunder Road seems the most likely contender (though it could have been Ramrod).

Could be. I'd be interested to see the original setlist. Bobby Jean was definitely audibled though so something made way for it. Shame Rosalita seems to have been shelved in favour of Born in the USA on the Euro tour. He sang it almost every night in the US while BitUSA was only played once. I know he's ambivalent about the song generally but I'd argue most of the people waving American flags and singing it last night were not any more or less aware of the song's criticism of US foreign and domestic policy than an audience in Portland or Atlanta or Baltimore would be.

A strange move to drop Thunder Road.... Maybe for the best if he's not enjoying playing it. It certainly went down well on Friday.

I did notice him motioning to Stevie a couple times to take the little "got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk" riff.... Usually Bruce's takes this, struck me as a tad unusual, then again he was out on a walkabout at the time.

I'm really surprised at the dislike for Kitty's Back... The band are so solid for it and all get their time in the spotlight. Epic musicianship! It was flat as a pancake on Friday where I was, once again the poxy sound made the groove impossible to get into!

Had my back to the back of the pit rail for a lot of last night. No problems with the crowd apart from one women who was talking loudly during the intro to Last Man. Was told to shut up, didnt, was told again, didnt and then was told by about 10 people. Finally shut up. But Ill take that through a 3 hour gig. Theres always one.

Pit in Barca was way bigger. Thought the pit last night was about standard size. Glad I got in.

A binfire of uninterested drunks on parts of the pitch. Went to the toilet during Marys Place and heard a few jarred lads moaning he hadnt played anything they knew. By that time he'd played No Surrender off BITUSA, Prove it All Night off Darkness, Darkness off Darkness, The Promised Land off Darkness and Kittys Back off Wild. Very famous albums, obviously.

Althought Ive never really liked Prove it all Night or Promised Land.

Enjoyed last night but thoroughly Bruced out now at this stage. Rumours from a mate in the queue who met someone who knows one of Bruces sound guys is theres a 2024 Euro tour planned. Madrid apparently the only date was mentioned so far.

Ill be traveling again for one gig. Make a weekend out of it. Nighttime starts > Daytime starts. He was at the encore last night and it was still bright.

@Beasty What camera do you use? You always have great gig shots

Dunno about this statement 🤔

The queue is at at simmonscourt and they let those people in first. When it gets to about 3000 they send people to the other entrances (Merrion rd in my case on Friday) and when everyone is in on simmonscourt side they open the other gates.

2pm should be ok to the simmonscourt side given it's Tuesday.

Thanks Dr Nick, much appreciated

I think you were standing beside me in the pit yesterday! There was a guy who kept switching between what looked a big professional photographer's camera with a really big zoom lens, and then he was using a smaller compact camera with an extendable zoom (I have one of those myself - a Panasonic TZ80 - got some great shots with it on Friday). Are you quite tall (i.e. over 5'10" which is my height) and were you wearing glasses and a baseball cap? If it was you I was fascinated by the fact that you kept switching between the two and wondered what you were getting with the smaller compact that you couldn't get with the big professional kit. I was going to ask you when the gig was over but you left - or at least moved off from beside me- shortly before the end of the gig?

Wow, fair play to whoever told her to shut up - you don't see that normally in this country where behaving like an arsehole is usually dismissed as "ah shure they'll only havin' a laugh".